A Comparative Study of Characteristics of Adolescent and Adult Family Planning Acceptors in Lagos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13899644 |
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| Authors | A A Olukoya (Primary Health Care, corresponding author), Ekpenyong E Ekanem (0000-0002-9657-9939, University of Lagos) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 311-318 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Adolescence and Youth (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0267-3843 • E-ISSN: 2164-4527 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02673843.1992.9747711 |
| OpenAlex | W2034910621 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
A comparative study of adolescent and adult new acceptors of family planning at a family health clinic of a primary care project in Lagos over an eleven-year period, showed only 0.8% of acceptors to be adolescents ⩽19 years. It found a statistically significant smaller proportion of older adolescents than adults without education, but a greater proportion of adolescents with at least secondary school education. Significantly fewer adolescents were in polygamous unions or in professional occupations. The gravidity, parity, and number of children alive was expectably lower among the adolescent acceptors. More adolescent acceptors had previously practised abstinence as a means of contraception. The two most common methods accepted at the clinic by both groups was the IUD and the pill, but none of the adolescents contemplated stopping childbearing. The implications of the findings for family planning services for adolescents are discussed
Abstinence · Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Fertility · Pill · Population · Psychiatry · Research methodology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Nursing · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Pediatrics
| Highly cited | No |
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